Illustrated vs Depicted - What's the difference?
illustrated | depicted |
(illustrate)
(obsolete) To shed light upon; to illuminate.
* Were the Moon smooth, as a looking glass, a very small part would be seen by any particular eye to be illustrated by the Sun.
* Chapman
To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
* Milton
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To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
* The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.
(obsolete) To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
* Milton
(depict)
To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
* 1984 , Lawrence Starr, "Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess," American Music , vol. 2, no. 2, p. 27,
* 1987 , Niall O'Loughlin, "Music Reviews: 20th-century guitar," The Musical Times , vol. 128, no. 1734, p. 443,
* 1994 , E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News , vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption),
(obsolete) Depicted.
As verbs the difference between illustrated and depicted
is that illustrated is past tense of illustrate while depicted is past tense of depict.illustrated
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Verb
(head)illustrate
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Verb
(illustrat)- Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky.
- To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.
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- Matter to me of glory, whom their hate / Illustrates .
References
* ----depicted
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Verb
(head)depict
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Verb
(en verb)- The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.
- Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.
- False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.
Usage notes
* The subjects of the verb include words, music and images.Synonyms
* portray, supply, figure, express, exhibit, register, show, return, establish, shew, deliver, present, read, indicate, evidence, point, record, testify, fancy, picture, translate, visualize, usher, give, envision, turn in, designate, limn, show up, render, evince, provide, prove, image, yield, demonstrate, fork out, draw, visualise, generate, describe, interpret, project, submitAdjective
(-)- (Lydgate)